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5:30 am – I am up and feeding pets, making coffee, and eating my Oatmeal Squares and peanuts. 6 to 8 – After doing some kitchen chores, I begin my new job! What? Yes, I am the new owner/editor/researcher for The Fabric Shopper ”the blog about fabric and the people who love it.” There is fabric researching to do (shopping) and sponsors to visit (shopping) and emails about fabric sales to collate (shopping)! See, a lot of work (shopping)! 8 to 9 – Sit with Hubby and have my second c

For some of you it may seem early to start thinking about Christmas. Those of you who have been saving money for a long time might be expecting this! Christmas is a lot more fun when you don't have to worry as much about where you are going to come up with the funds. It is also a lot more fun to give people gifts so cutting that out has never been an option for me. Here is where the Budget Christmas Challenge comes in! BUDGET CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE I will be posting "super" deals as we g

I have to say that kindergarten is going well. Gooshy is really liking it and making lots of friends. (he is a social butterfly like his mom!) He plays a lot, gets books read to him, and did I mention that he plays a lot? So is it enough? He has been in daycare 3-4 days/week since he was 6 months. And he has been in Montessori pre-school for 2 years. He can read and write, do (very little) Spanish and has started doing math. He is in kindergarten five days per week – only half day. An

Cute. Slim. Innovative. Three words to sum up Dangy’s Promise Pocket Diaper! The Promise Pocket Diaper certainly impresses me (and I have tried a lot of cloth diapers.) “Michelle Ray, owner of Dagny’s Promise , left the world of computers and cubicals to stay home with her children when her second was born in 2003. Her second career as a WAHM began with the decision to cloth diaper and the birth of a very hard to fit, skinny little girl. After buying a stash of over 50 different commerc

Next month, she’ll turn 3. And yes, she is still in our bed . They say she’ll never become independent. They say she’ll never learn to sleep on her own. They say we’ll never get her out of our bed. They say a lot of things. But they aren’t there at night, when her heartbeat and mine start beating in sync, our own song of love. They aren’t there in the morning, when she wakes up with a smile and confidence from knowing she belongs. Because right now, at this time in her life, this is wh